Order of Autumn

Written By Jan Wiezorek

It’s been a dry summer,
and autumn’s lawn dies
to be reborn. The machine
trims the grass for robins
homing for worms

left behind from the rotor.
Do you have any equipment?
Something that enhances your growth
journey, brings you into history, just as
a car pulls up

—flat. And a couple from Illinois,
white-shirted, yellow-dressed,
white-bearded, phone-worried,
cannot change their tire. Ask Lenny
to swing by like a lame groundhog

to solve the puzzle of our own
underbellies. Being fixed, they’ll
drive on to Interlochen or to an old bridge
—somewhere—following leaf-rusted
gears turning the order of autumn.

Jan Wiezorek

Jan Wiezorek writes from Michigan and walks daily among the beech forests of McCoy Creek Trail. He is author of the poetry chapbooks Prayer’s Prairie (Michigan Writers Cooperative Press) and Forests of Woundedness (forthcoming from Seven Kitchens Press). Wiezorek’s work has appeared in The London Magazine, The Westchester Review, BlazeVOX, Pine Hills Review, Triggerfish Critical Review, and Vita Poetica. He taught writing at St. Augustine College, Chicago, and he holds a master’s degree in English Composition/Writing from Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago. The Poetry Society of Michigan awarded him, and he is a Pushcart Prize nominee. Jan posts at janwiezorek.substack.com.

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